Anyone want a fight ?

Mike Amos

@mike amos said:

Sorry mate but Hood took between three and five shells depending on which report you take most relevence from, the germans think three shells the Royal navy think five. The shot that killed Hood just happened to benefit from the lack of depth to the armoured deck and exploded inside the aft 15" magazine which rather bent the ship out of shape. There is a similarity to the loss of the USS Arizona where what was considered to be one explosion in the aft magazine was in fact a number of conflagrations involving the stern AND the bow magazines, some say due to improper safety installations.

I stand corrected. Thank you.

No worries mate, fair exchange is no robbery and thanks for your help with rendering, much easier when someone like yourself does the hard work first.

CoreMaster110

This is really cool. Nicely done!

dale

Grew up on stories of the Hood / Bismark battle John, so it's really great to see this incredible piece. I knew you weren't just another pretty face!
Cheers

alvis

in a word I do not have words...

tadema

Thank you everyone, glad you all like her.
Ken, sounds good! a mother of all battles.
Dale, fantastic story, I've spent most of the weekend researching. There's quite a lot on youtube. The Bismarck looks formidable although they are similar in size, the names Battleship and Battle-cruiser just about sum it up.

thank you
John

chedda

Wow John you've excelled yourself this time. I'm interested in the sea texture and the wake in particular can you explain the process or link to the texture ?

Now "Sink The Bismarck !" (watched it last week)

tadema

Thanks Simon, the texture is all done in PS, just layered (PM sent),.
"Sink The Bismarck !" I watched it Sat night
John

urgen

Wow!

david_h

@tadema said:

Thanks Simon, the texture is all done in PS, just layered (PM sent),.
"Sink The Bismarck !" I watched it Sat night
John

Great movie. Kenneth More, Dana Winter. One of my faves.

benie

jaw dropping brilliant mate.

Bryan K

@unknownuser said:

@tadema said:

Thanks Simon, the texture is all done in PS, just layered (PM sent),.
"Sink The Bismarck !" I watched it Sat night
John

Great movie. Kenneth More, Dana Winter. One of my faves.

An absolute classic.

tadema

I'll keep these two together.

The Bismarck... I can smell trouble brewing between these two .

Been working on these two models for almost two weeks now and Sketchup has never once crashed or shown the slightest sign of slowing down, even with both models combined. It seems SU has come on leaps and bounds lately!

John

tadema

Bryan, If I e-mailed you the file i would bet it would work just fine on your computer. I'm still using SU8, see no point in upgrading yet.
David, think I'll take a break from the ships for a while.

Gotcha!

I know it was the other way around
John

Bryan K

Wow.

And how does your computer handle this load? Are you using the latest version of SU?

Bryan K

Wow! Great battle scene!

Yeah, I'm beginning to think I have a bad install. I have all kinds of "glitchy" thing happen and it really slows down my modeling.

Mike Amos

Brilliant John, just brilliant.

david_h

okay. .. . .now you're just showin' off. Next you'll tell me you're working on The Prince Eugen?

I do Love the render. It really gives the sense of the North Atlantic circa 1941. You should show her with a damaged screw so she can only sail west. That way the planes from the Ark Royal can finish her off.

leedeetee

Just seen this beauty. Wow. Just wow. Bravo, John.

rv1974

Really great work! Well done! But pay some attention to color matching on composing stage. Some times foam areas and the sky do not work well with the rest.

tadema

Thanks folks
rv1974, thank you for the advice. Thought I'd check out some of your renders for tips to help improve my work but strangely there seems to be none in the gallery

John